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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 25, 2018 2:56:39 GMT
Since most of my catalog is erotica I've never been able to submit to them, and for some reason, I don't seem to have much of my non-smut up there. Hmm, well, for two books I used amazon's cover creator, so that's why for them. Too lazy for the others? Probably. But anyhoo, I published a very short ghost story and it got accepted. Hurraaaaysicles!!!
It was neat being able to check off every box on D2D, except for the amazon one.
Do you have books on Playster? What are your borrows like?
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Post by qirky on Aug 25, 2018 4:45:37 GMT
I'm still not sure how playster works.
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Post by EllieL on Aug 25, 2018 4:59:58 GMT
I haven't seen any sales from Playster yet.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 25, 2018 5:47:45 GMT
If I get anything I'll let y'all know, but I'm not expecting it. I average about two books a month including all aggregators.  |
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Post by corabuhlert on Aug 25, 2018 22:45:28 GMT
I think I got one sale/borrow/whatever via Playster, which puts them way behind Scribd, Libreka, Kobo Plus, Overdrive, 24symbols and the defunct Oyster in the realm of subscription services.
Though for some reason, the only subscription service that brings in regular sales for me as Scribd. Everything else is once in a blue moon.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 26, 2018 0:58:50 GMT
I think I got one sale/borrow/whatever via Playster, which puts them way behind Scribd, Libreka, Kobo Plus, Overdrive, 24symbols and the defunct Oyster in the realm of subscription services. Though for some reason, the only subscription service that brings in regular sales for me as Scribd. Everything else is once in a blue moon. How do you get onto Libreka? I've never heard of that one. I only do KDP and D2D though. I've gotten sales/borrows from 24 Symbols. Scribd wouldn't accept my smut, so nothing from them. I don't think I've ever gotten anything from Kobo Plus or Overdrive, either. I don't remember if Overdrive is even on D2D, but they just added Kobo Plus, and they do accept smut, for now. |
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Post by kateelizabeth on Aug 26, 2018 21:32:29 GMT
I got on Libreka through StreetLib, although no sales since I put my work on all of those tiny foreign sites a few weeks ago.
I think that I had a couple of sales through Playster, but it was months ago, if it actually did happen.
Overdrive is on D2D, because I sold one of my short stories there last month. I've also sold on Overdrive with Smashwords. I know that you can also get there through Kobo, and I think StreetLib and PublishDrive.
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Post by corabuhlert on Sept 2, 2018 2:27:15 GMT
I got into Libreka via StreetLib. I'm surprised they take indies at all, since Libreka used to be the e-book platform of the German Booksellers and Publishers Association which hates indies with a passion. Honestly, they let Neonazi publishers exhibit at the Frankfurt and Leipzig bookfairs, but won't even sell ISBNs to indies.
I do get a couple of borrows from Libreka every month. Only for German books, though, since the service is based in Germany.
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Sept 16, 2018 6:49:03 GMT
I'm still not sure how playster works.
Yeah, same here. That's why I've avoided it so far.
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Sept 16, 2018 6:52:03 GMT
I think I got one sale/borrow/whatever via Playster, which puts them way behind Scribd, Libreka, Kobo Plus, Overdrive, 24symbols and the defunct Oyster in the realm of subscription services. Though for some reason, the only subscription service that brings in regular sales for me as Scribd. Everything else is once in a blue moon.
Do you have any advice for us about how to get traction on Scribd? Or, if not traction, then to at least make the needle twitch? I have yet to make my first penny from there.
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Post by corabuhlert on Sept 16, 2018 23:38:46 GMT
I think I got one sale/borrow/whatever via Playster, which puts them way behind Scribd, Libreka, Kobo Plus, Overdrive, 24symbols and the defunct Oyster in the realm of subscription services. Though for some reason, the only subscription service that brings in regular sales for me as Scribd. Everything else is once in a blue moon.
Do you have any advice for us about how to get traction on Scribd? Or, if not traction, then to at least make the needle twitch? I have yet to make my first penny from there.
No idea, unfortunately. I don't do anything special beyond linking to them on my site (along with every other vendor/subscription service except for the tiny foreign ones). And indeed I didn't expect much from Scribd, when I uploaded my books and was very surprised when I started getting sales/reads. |
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